Polish Workers' Party

The Polish Workers' Party (PPR) was a Polish Marxist-Leninist communist party that existed from 1942 to 1948, serving as a reconstituted Communist Party of Poland. The party was founded as an anti-Nazi Polish patriotic front by Marceli Nowotko, Pawel Finder, Boleslaw Molojec, and Malgorzata Fornalska, having been authorized to create a new communist party by Joseph Stalin. By the summer of 1942, the PPR had 6,000 members, and Wladyslaw Gomulka came to lead the party after World War II's end. The party ruled over Poland after the war's end, with the Soviet NKVD executing or imprisoning the non-communist politicians who had not already fled the country. The PPR merged with the Polish Socialist Party to form the Polish United Workers' Party in 1948.